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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Terr_ on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:53PM (#42925839)
Yeah, the one useful feature I ever thought it might have would be as a check against a crazy-unqualified demagogue, and since then I have seen it fail spectacularly, twice.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by IgorPartola on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:22PM (#42926835)
That was the original intent. It’s like a half way to a parliamentary system where the legislature elects a PM except here it is a separate one time use assembly.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Terr_ on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:53PM (#42927139)
In fairness to the framers, it was originally supposed to increase in size along with the growth of the House of Representatives.
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